On 12 Jun 2008, at 17:48, Tobias Kremer wrote:
I don't want to sound rude but I don't like any of the proposed
designs. To be honest, from a stilistic point of view they all look
worse than the current Catalyst frontpage. They all pale in comparison
to nearly EVERY other MVC framework's web site. Look at
djangoproject.com,
cakephp.org, symfony-project.org, even rubyonrails.org with its
simplistic approach is much more attractive. No offense, but if this
is a glimpse at the future of catalyst.perl.org I'm seriously worried
about the framework's future. This is how to NOT attract new users.
You piqued my curiosity with the comparisons with other framework
sites, so I thought I'd look.
Subjectively speaking, I think that all the sites you mention above
are horribly ugly with the exception of the rubyonrails one which is
quite nice. Mainly the other sites lose me in a technicolour yawn
(http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=technicolor+yawn) of
blocky colour.
And as far as the comparison between http://www.browsing.co.uk/cat/
and http://www.catalystframework.org/ goes ...
the browsing.co.uk mockup is quite a bit easier to scan for
information than the current site, in my opinion (could do with a
more prominent download link, like the other framework sites havee).
I'd also like to see a way for the crop circle image to get
integrated into the top banner gradient thingy.
OK, your turn ;)
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